Programs

If you have an ongoing health condition such as heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis or something different, Live Well with Chronic Conditions will help you manage your disease better, improving your life overall. If you have diabetes, Live Well with Diabetes will help you become more self-sufficient in managing your life, helping you feel more in control and healthier. Live Well with Chronic Pain can help you better manage your symptoms. Also, if you want to learn new ways to help improve your health, financial security and overall well-being, consider enrolling in an Aging Mastery Program near you. And, Tai Ji Quan: Moving For Better Balance will help improve balance, mobility, daily functioning, and prevent falls.

Live Well

Are you an adult with an ongoing health condition such as arthritis, high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic pain, anxiety or depression? Or do you care for someone who does? This workshop can help you be in control and feel better. (If you have Type 2 diabetes, you should consider taking our other workshop “Live Well with Diabetes.”)

You will learn to set your own goals and make a step-by-step plan to improve your health – and your life. You will learn from trained leaders who understand because they have health conditions themselves or care for someone with a health condition.

Live Well with Diabetes

Are you an adult with Type 2 diabetes or do you care for someone who does? This workshop can help you take control of your diabetes or help you in your role as a caregiver.

Learn how to manage symptoms so you can get the most out of life. You will learn to set your own goals and make a step-by-step plan to improve your health – and your life. You will learn from trained leaders who understand because they have health conditions themselves or care for someone with a health condition.

Live Well with Chronic Pain

Are you experiencing chronic pain brought on by arthritis, stroke, neuropathy or another condition? If so, this workshop provides you with practical tools to help you develop self-management skills, while giving you the confidence and motivation you need to better manage symptoms, and meet the challenges of day-to-day tasks of living with chronic pain.

Classes encourage active participation, where mutual support and success build confidence in your ability to manage your health and maintain active and fulfilling lives. The workshop will not conflict with existing programs or treatment and is designed to enhance regular treatment.

You will learn:

Techniques to deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, isolation, and poor sleep

Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance,

Aging Mastery Program®

The Aging Mastery Program® (AMP) is a 10-week series of incentive-based health and wellness classes for people age 55 and over. AMP can help you build your own playbook for aging well. It is a fun, innovative, and person-centered education program that empowers participants to embrace their gift of longevity by spending more time each day doing things that are good for themselves and for others.

Tai Ji Quan: Moving For Better Balance

Are you an adult at risk for falling, or are you afraid of falling? If so, this Program, which is an evidence-based fall prevention program, is for you. Years of research and community evaluations are behind this therapeutic movement program aimed at improving postural stability, awareness and mindful control of body positioning, functional walking, movement symmetry and coordination, range of motion around the ankle and hip joints and lower-extremity muscle strength, to improve balance, mobility and daily functioning and prevent falls.

LGBT Moveable Senior Center

Come Out and Connect! LGBT adults and allies of the LGBT community throughout Connecticut are invited to join the LGBT Moveable Senior Center (MSC). The LGBT MSC is a partnership among Senior Centers to provide a welcoming pathway for the LGBT senior community to Senior Centers and their programs and resources. The MSC program focuses on the health, social connections and engagement of LGBT seniors. While we are beginning in Senior Centers located in the Greater Hartford Area, the programs are open regardless of your zip code. Come Out and Connect!

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The Connecticut Healthy Living Collective (CHLC) is comprised of state, regional and local agencies and organizations dedicated to healthy aging in communities throughout our state, and to providing leadership and visibility for the challenges and opportunities faced by Connecticut’s growing aging population. Learn more